Harness-buckle



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELANCTHON E. ZELLER, OF BLUFFTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO 0. B. NORTH & CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

HARNESS-BUCKLE. H

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,564, datedJanuary 30, 1883.

Application filed December '1, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ll IELANCTHON E. ZEL- LER, of Bluffton, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented a new Improvement in Harness-Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawiugs constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view 5 Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section, showing the strap attached.

This invention relates to an improvement in harness buckles especially adapted to the smaller class of straps, the object being to avoid the use of the usual hinged tongue, which is liable to be displaced, and often difficult of adjustment, and otherwise inconvenient; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

A is the plate or base, which is flat, so as to set upon the standing strap, and perforated for the reception of, or may be in itself provided with, rivets to be secured to the strap, (here represented as rivets a,) introduced through the base and strap B. At one end of the base is a tongue, which consists of an upright part, b, and a bent-forward part, d, this bent-forward part being in the direction of the line of strain. Back of the tongue, or about midway of the plate, is a cross-bar, 0, above the plate to form a loop, through which the end of the strap is tucked, as seen in Fig. 2.

the strap, withdraw it from the open tongue and present the proper hole, as before described. The bent part at of the tongue extends onto the strap in the direction of the strain of the free strap, and prevents accidental disengagement ot' the strap fromthe tongue.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming broadly a buckle having a standing tongue, as such, I am aware, is not new; but

What I do claim is- The herein-described buckle, consisting of the base A, constructed to be riveted to the face side of the strap, and with the tongue b extending vertically from the base-bars through v a hole in the strap to be engaged, its end d turned forward at right angles to the part b, and with the bar 6 transversely across but above the base, substantially as described.

MELAN CTHON E ZELLER.

Witnesses:

L. H. PRINDLE, A. H. JACKSON. 

